Mike Valla, author of The Founding Flies (978-0-8117-0833-3), Tying the Founding Flies (978-0-8117-1466-2), and Tying Catskill-Style Dry Flies (978-1-934753-01-9), is the Northeast Field Editor for Eastern Fly Fishing magazine and a recipient of the Poul Jorgensen Golden Hook Award. He has also published articles in Fly Fisherman, Fly Tyer, and American Fly Fisher. He lives in Ballston Spa, New York.
"At every level of the angler/fly tier's age and experience, this
book was needed. It is what we have been waiting for, had we but
known...Valla weaves a complex and fascinating tapestry full of the
wonders of American fly development, east and west. He shows us
these tiers' important flies in a compelling visual dimension and,
at the end of the book, gives surprisingly canny and helpful
dressings for each of them...It's a book to be returned to and
browsed again for its pleasures and the celebration of that most
excellent of objects: the trout fly."--Gordon M.
Wickstrom""American Fly Fisher"" (10/01/2014)
"For the first time, as far as I know, Mike Valla has brought
together in one place an account of the major developments in the
ways in which artificial flies were thought about, tied, and fished
in the United States over the period from the mid-1880s to the late
1960s... In its scope and depth, "The Founding Flies" stakes a
broader claim for Valla as one of the country's leading historians
of the art and craft of the artificial fly."--Bud Bynack"California
Fly Fisher" (10/01/2013)
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